As part of my election process here in the Wealden parliamentary constituency, I've emailed a series of questions about sex-positive issues (plus a couple of social and economic ones that matter to me) to all the candidates (except the sitting MP Charles Hendry - having written campaign letters to him and received replies, I feel I know his position on many of these issues).
The sex-positive questions put were about sex workers' rights (in particular, decriminalising prostitution); repealing censorship of erotic material; protections for practitioners of S/M; provision of rape crisis centres and DV shelters. I also asked some candidates about sex education, but because Dan Docker uses a web-based comment system for his questions I omitted this one for reasons of space when contacting him. (I also left out the economic/social issues questions for the same reason, and because I felt those were covered in the UKIP manifesto).
Dan Docker, of the United Kingdom Independence Party, is the first to have replied at any length to these questions.
He replies that UKIP does not have any policy on most of these issues.
His feeling on decriminalising sex work is that UKIP would be open to having a referendum on the issue, although there is no official policy.
On repealing censorship, he believes the party would be against such a move.
He expresses no opinion (and the party has no policy) on BDSM rights.
He restates that the UKIP takes a hard line against DV (the manifesto pledges increased penalties, especially where there are children to witness the violence) and says that therefore, he believes they would make provision of refuges a priority.
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